Tuesday, Darr and his wife Kim told 40/29’s Angela Taylor that he wanted to set the record straight. “I am not downplaying what has occurred, but there is no scandal, no conspiracy and no malicious intentional disregard of the law,” said Darr.

He said he and his family are still deciding whether staying in office is the right decision.

On New Year’s Eve, Beebe called for Darr to resign over ethics commission findings that Darr likely violated Arkansas campaign spending rules eleven times since 2010. After Beebe’s call for a resignation, members of the Arkansas Congressional Delegation also asked for Darr to resign.

Darr agreed to pay $11,000 dollars in fines for ethics violations.

Tuesday, Darr said the mistakes he had made where unintentional. “For the errors I made, I apologize to the people of Arkansas,” said Darr. He also said he wanted to share his side fo the story.

He says in 2010 he loaned his campaign more than $170,000. “I had every legal right to raise money and retire that debt. This is exactly what I did. Unfortunately, I erred in how I reported those payments and fundraising activities, which has been incorrectly interpreted as my using campaign funds for personal use,” said Darr.

Darr also addressed the nearly $10,000 collected in travel reimbursements. He says the reimbursements were for official travel and his error was using his home as the point of origin instead of the Capitol building.

Darr also faced ethics complaints for allegedly using his state credit card for personal expenses. He said all of the expenses were for official use or if it was for a personal expense it was by mistake.

He said his mistakes are not worthy of his removal of office saying, “The cost of a special election would be in excess of one million dollars and estimates run as high as one million dollars. This cost coupled with the facts I have outlined concerning my actions, convince me that I should stay in office. I believe this course would be best for the state.”

“These three facts are not worthy of my removal from office and certainly not worthy of personal attacks on my character and on my family,” said Darr.

Darr said he was not playing a political game and plans to stay in office. “Today I put a stake in the ground. Not for this office, not for the title or the job, but I put a stake in the ground for those Arkansans who are sick and tired of these types of political games and the people who play them. It would be an immediate fix to tuck tail and run, but I would regret it for years to come."